In the last few years, while working for some of the most efficient NGOs in Udaipur district, I came to know about the poor standard of education in the city. The youths of the city were naive about the importance of education. The situation was the same with the people of the villages.

It was interesting enough to notice the fact that this attitude of ignorance about education was not just in the rural area but also the urban areas, especially those areas where low-income people live; the slums of Udaipur and the nearby villages are examples of such population.

To start with, I selected the villages of Badgaon and Hawala. The majority of the population of Hawala is tribal and even being a part of the modern society and being close to the city, still the villagers believe in the old social structure where their tribal people were considered as a secondary citizens.

I decided to make a team of people from different backgrounds, diversified thinking, and infinite idea so we can withstand this evil of unawareness and illiteracy. This team will have all different types of people, from university professors to volunteers from various countries. Volunteers and visitors who come to India are valuable resources for us to understand and discover those, which we are not able to see with our culturally-blinded eyes.

In DAAN, there are people from the corporate background and those who have been working in the development sector for more than 22 years, people who are involved with the media and people who are related with the defense sector. When the diversities in life come close, it is called Development. When there is an association of several, certain is the Action and the achievement. Societies are complex and so are the evils in it and when we can discuss these variations, where we can visualize these different compounds such place, the state is the state of Awareness of invention of sustainability; sustainability so successive that it spreads Nationwide.

DAAN owes its genesis to the efforts of young, committed and like-minded professionals who share a common vision and mission towards positively affecting lives of the vulnerable and marginalized sections of the society.